Happy Birthday Adelene!

Allan stifled a laugh. He glanced at Kranz first before turning to Sky, "Didn't know we could bribe the old man with alcohol," he said in a hushed tone, a little jokingly. He wasn't into the bribing business but it wasn't something too harmful to know. It'll probably just be something for him to know; Allan wasn't the type to take advantage after all.

"Adelene's really close to those guys, isn't she?" Allan mused aloud looking towards Lochlann and the towards Leon. He then turned to Sky, "Do you... know anything about those two..?"

"Same as ever. Well, maybe a little more excited then normal, though I wonder why that could be."

A small joke, Leon was glad she was having a great time already. He saw the goggles and smiled bigger. As she looked at the sword Leon was proud of the work he and his father had put into it and that their work was worth the effort. An older looking man came up and looked at the sword himself. Leon assumed this was Kranz, more so after he complimented the sword itself.

"Thank you. Name's Leon Norama. You might have heard of my father's side business of making decorative swords for people, Jason Norama. A pleasure to meet you Mr. Kranz. I do admire your work as well from what I've seen."

As Adelene walked off to greet another one of her friends Leon started looking around at the others. One looked rather shy so Leon figured going up to him might be a good and bad idea. Didn't want to spook him on accident. Another was grabbing things from the bar which puzzled Leon for a moment.

It hadn't hit Leon, despite reading the invitation, that it was a pub with alcohol. He wasn't bothered for the most part. Just didn't want this turning into a drunk fest and him doing things he knew better about. Still he wasn't going to ruin everyone else's fun. This was Adelene's party and he was going to make sure her and her friends had a good time.

The one who just arrived made Leon feel a little one edge mostly because of how Kranz acted towards him. However the guy was Adelene's friend so he didn't do or say anything. Leon continued to watch and decided he should get to know some of Adelene's friends a bit. Which one was the bigger question though, as he didn't want to end up being rude on accident.

Leon watched as Adelene's friend went over and gave Kranz a gift and apologized for something. Whatever the reason Kranz was upset at the guy for, a gift and apologizing made him good in Leon's book. Meant a person knew when to suck it up and do the right thing. He also didn't want to hog Adelene to himself but for some reason he actually wanted to do that. He figured he would ask her some other time if she wanted him to cook for her again. This time he could do all the cooking and she could sit back. Another birthday present he thought.

Leon walked over to Adelene with his normal smile and look, standing next to her with his hands in his pockets. To be honest Leon felt a little awkward and out of place. He was used to being nice to people, to one person at a time. Not multiple people at once like how this was. That and giving his attention to said person. He saw that the person behind the bar was doing something. Oh well might as well join in the fun. Leon hopped behind the bar himself and started checking through some of the alcohol.

"Vodka and rum? Man you must be trying to either get yourself wasted quick or have a weird taste. Then again vodka is strong as hell on its own. Hmm....I wonder."

Leon had an idea, but wondered if people would like it. A shot for Adelene instead of a toast and people could drink whatever they wanted. Personally Leon would settle with a bottle of beer. He wasn't that big a drinker and preferred the simple stuff even if it tasted like ass. He'd still try different stuff since hey why not. He looked at Adelene for a moment.

"By the way I have another present for you later. Just couldn't exactly bring it with me. I'll show you another day so don't worry. Enjoy yourself!"

Leon jumped onto the bar counter and looked at all the guests that were there with a grin on his face. Yeah he was about to be weird but hey, it was part of his charm sometimes.

"Alright everyone! I think it's time for a toast shot for Adelene! If you're in come on down! We have a whole bar to work with so we can find you something! So let's get a drink going for the Birthday Girl!"

Leon pumped his fist into the air, comically purposely slipping off the counter top and back behind the bar, landing in a handstand before flipping back upright and laughing.

Everyone seemed to be mingling; meanwhile Allan felt like he was the very definition of a wallflower if Sky wasn't standing next to him. Part of him actually just wanted to take his leave and do something else but he knew Kranz would ask him to stay, and Adelene might end up looking for him. Might, but he wasn't taking chances. Allan wasn't a party person anyway and it didn't help out of this entire crowd, the only people he was familiar with were the Blades and Potions staff.

Allan just stood watching everyone, his glance darting towards Adelene half of the time. Looks like Stefan and Leon had plans in mind, he thought. It was too bad Allan was literally too self-conscious to be doing any of that sort of thing. He was really just going to stand around until Adelene turned to their direction, "You two, join in, let's have fun!"

Well, Allan wasn't one with a huge crowd but he was the person who couldn't really turn down an offer to go drink. He glanced at Sky and shrugged, almost like he was saying 'why not?'. Allan hesitantly walked to the counter near Adelene (seriously, he didn't know either of those two behind that counter; he was feeling a bit awkward).

He looked at the concoction Stefan was doing and just blurted out, "What does that even taste?" He didn't cover his mouth but his reaction spelled out him asking himself why he's said it out loud. Oh well, too late.

Once upon a time, Stefan made rum with coke which consisted of the two following ingrediants: Rum... and coke. That was it. He added some ice cubes and his friends told him it was bomb so obviously he knew what he was doing here.

He grinned mischievously at the people watching him. Oh man, he just thought about mudslide vodka and how he should totally turn that into an alcoholic milkshake.

The following food items were now in the blender: Ice cubes, vodka cups of malt, four spoonfuls of sugar, a shot of espresso, chocolate syrup, two cups of milk and cream. Stefan turned on the machine and watched the ingredients blend together until they were all a uniform light brown color. He poured his concoction in a glass and gave it a taste.

It's pretty good.

"I should be a bartender," he said with certainty in his voice and a glint in his eye as he handed Leon the blender.

It was so loud in here.

There was a prickling in his skin that gave him the feeling that he only had a little bit longer before he had to get home. There was no way he wanted to be caught out in the rain.

But Addy was calling him over to the bar where gods knew what was happening. There was something in the blender, someone on the counter someone off the counter and his head was swimming.

But he complied and stood next to Allan, though he didn't quite know the boys name, only that he seemed to be in a similar state of social anxiety as Lochlann.

"What does that even taste?

"I think the point is that you're not supposed to taste after you drink it," Lochlann mused. "I don't think anyone drinks whiskey for the flavor."

To the guy behind the bar, Lochlann said, "Could I try a shot of that?"

"Alright let's see what you got here."

Leon was confused by the mixture but decided nothing gained from just holding the glass. Within a few seconds the drink was gone as Leon chugged it down. Well....It was very weird to start. Was both sweet, but still had a hint of the vodka. He had to think about it for a moment before turning around and finding Jagermeister and pouring himself another shot just to wash down what he just drank.

"Alright not gunna lie it was weird. Not bad, just weird. Needed something else to wash it down though, too sweet for my tastes at least alcohol wise. Dunno how the rest of them would take it though. Think I'll just stick with...."

Setting the jagermeister down, Leon grabs a taller glass and pours in something simple for himself, rum and coke. He wasn't exactly a fancy drinker. Just something to drink, and something to give him that buzz. He figured he could drink a little more just to make Adelene feel better and not drag the party. Leon looked at Stefan and smirked

"Man we should just have everyone turn around and fill each shot with something different, make people guess. Start a party game of some sort. So," Leon at this point lens onto the counter still smirking, "Anyone game for that one?"

"Point taken." Allan rarely did mixes when his relatives dragged him out to drink but Lochlann was right. But it he was just really curious if that actually did anything to what alcoholic milkshakes would even do. He shrugged and decided to leave that slip up behind and just stick around the counter before he gets into anything he'd regret later after the party.

Allan picked up the glass Adelene had given out and it goes without saying that... it was surprisingly good. The smooth chocolate hinted with a kick of vodka was probably a new thing for him but he supposes that's what happens when he always went out to drink with older people. "Nah, I'm actually okay with this. My uncles usually just dragged me to drink 'em neat." Allan told Leon before turning back to the the counter, "Hey, could I get another shot?" Probably the only thing that can get Allan talking without all the awkward was over alcohol. And he didn't even need to get drunk.

Allan then turned to Leon who just decided to hatch up an idea, "Sign me up for that..!"